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...first story, "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," for which she won $100 in a contest, begins briskly: "To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind...
...company issued a recall on its new high-end laptop after two of them burst into flames at Apple offices. Then Apple reported that its quarterly earnings would be significantly below expectations, largely because the company could not produce computers fast enough. The third blow was Wall Street's swift reaction, which sent Apple shares plummeting by 15% of their value in two days. The fourth thing...
...revamps Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor, following the general G.O.P. prescription for welfare: no more federally guaranteed benefits; instead, lump-sum grants to the states to spend as they see fit. Senate Republicans unveiled a similar plan. But the G.O.P.'s decision to hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed to use every stalling tactic at its disposal to prevent...
...consumers, a swift Bell invasion of the long-distance market could push down rates in a hurry. But the cost of local calls would be slower to fall until the arrival of full-fledged competition from sources ranging from cable companies to advanced wireless phones that would provide alternative networks...
...which provides money for AIDS treatment, Helms said the disease consumes a disproportionate amount of federal funding, considering that it is only the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S. Helms denies accusations that he is trying to stop reauthorization of the White Act altogether. Reaction was swift from Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of the act's namesake, an Indiana teenager who died after contracting AIDS as a result of a blood transfusion. "He seems to want to blame people with AIDS for being sick. I wonder if he feels the same about Americans dying of cancer because...